> This may be thinking outside the box ... > > but do you have any rule earlier in your procmail.rc that is catching the mail > and storing it to Inbox before the mail reaches this rule? > > TD No. Those are the top lines in my .procmailrc. Hongwei > > On Friday 03 Feb 2006 16:19, Hongwei Li wrote: >> > From: "Hongwei Li" <hongwei@xxxxxxxxx> >> > >> >>>> On 2/2/2006 12:10 PM, Hongwei Li wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> [snip] >> >> >> >> So, the Re: and [Fwd: in the subject line makes the code in procmailrc >> >> not working. Why? >> > >> > Good question. "It's procmail" comes to mind. It might be this sort of >> > thing that has people down on procmail. >> > >> > ^Subject:.*:*.*is out of the office >> > >> > I wonder if that one will work. Zero or more characters, zero or more >> > colons, another zero or more characters, then the real string. >> > >> > One thing that comes to mind with Re: and Fwd: is that the actual message >> > is placed inside mime quoting. So there might be two Subject lines >> > present and that confuses things. >> >> Thanks for many people's help. I did extensive tests again and here are >> the summary. >> >> OS: FC3 (I also tested my FC4 system, the situation is the same), sendmail >> 8.13.1-2 >> >> Part of my .procmailrc related to this problem: >> >> SHELL=/bin/bash >> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin >> VERBOSE=off >> MAILDIR=$HOME/mail >> SENDMAIL=/usr/sbin/sendmail >> >> # test1: >> :0: >> >> * ^Subject:.*is out of the.* >> $MAILDIR/Junk >> >> :0: >> >> * ^Subject:.*DELIVERY FAILURE.* >> $MAILDIR/Junk >> >> #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ end ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> Junk is the "mail folder" under mail/ as Trash -- I tried both, the same. >> >> I use the junk emails received earlier for testing, either reply or >> forward. Here are the results. >> >> For the subject line: >> >> DELIVERY FAILURE... >> or >> Re: DELIVERY FAILURE... >> or >> [Fwd: DELIVERY FAILURE... >> >> My .procmailrc put the mail in Junk -- working. >> >> For the subject line: >> >> Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office... >> >> The mail goes to Junk -- working normally. >> >> For the subject line: >> >> Re: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office... >> or >> [Fwd: Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff is out of the office... >> >> the mail goes to inbox -- .procmailrc does not function. >> >> I also tried: >> >> * ^Subject:.*:.*is out of the.* >> >> * ^Subject:.*:*.*is out of the.* >> >> etc. The situation remains the same. >> >> Conclusion: the part "Aaa Bbb/Cccc Ddd/Eee Fffff" causes procmail not >> working properly on mails with Re: or [Fwd: at the beginning of the subject >> line. >> >> I know that most of Internet emails don't have that part in the subject >> line. It is Lotus Notes's bug, but Lotus Notes does not admit it. Then, we >> have to deal with it. Any idea? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Hongwei > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
